The Hard Choices Public Media Institutions Are Facing Every Single Day

Recently, I was compelled to do a hard thing: I turned down a grant. The decision was painful because, right now, the organization I lead — Black Public Media — really needs funding. Congress’ rescission of $1.1 billion in public media support stripped $1.8 million of committed funding from our budget. Like many others in the public media sector, and…

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By ending a cruel Tory social experiment, this budget clearly set out how Labour will fight the battle to renew Britain | Lucy Powell

Yesterday the chancellor, Rachel Reeves, delivered a Labour budget. People have been asking for Labour’s purpose and values to be more clearly expressed. Through the choices made – a shift to a fairer tax system, targeting wealth to pay for tackling child poverty, good public services and the cost of living – we have clearly…

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KuCoin Secures MiCA License In Austria For EU Crypto Services

Major cryptocurrency exchange KuCoin is the latest company to secure a license under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) framework. KuCoin’s European arm, KuCoin EU, secured a MiCA license from the Financial Market Authority of Austria, the company said in a statement shared with Cointelegraph on Friday. The authorization allows KuCoin EU to…

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How and Why the Orgy Scene Was Censored for Theaters

Welcome to IndieWire’s “Eyes Wide Shut” Week. The password is, of course, “fidelio,” but we’ve already taken care of admittance, inviting you into five days of stories celebrating Stanley Kubrick’s swan-song masterpiece from 1999. Criterion Collection has just unveiled its 4K restoration of the classic erotic odyssey starring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, and it…

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